Ideas for new trips with VoluntEars
We are busy planning some new short trips for 2023/4 and we’d love your feedback please!!
These ideas are all for short trips (4 days or 1 week) which means less time off work, closer destinations so shorter and cheaper flights but still with very different cultures, foods, languages, geography and always maintaining our link with local Deaf schools.
As always, trips will welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, D/deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing and will always include a Sign Language interpreter and trip leader from VoluntEars.
Please tell us what you think: sms/whatsapp: +44 7713 752124 or email your thoughts to: contact@voluntears.info
Montenegro
Trip highlights (Google them!):
- Help in a deaf school
- Beautiful coastline and beaches
- Day trip to mountains (they’re v close to the sea!)
- Kotor Old Town – one of the oldest and most beautiful cities on the Adriatic sea
- San Giovanni Fortress (for an amazing view of Kotor and the coastline)
- Visit Lovcen National Park (for an amazing view of the mountains)
- Black lake – rent a boat or kayak
- Ostrog Monastery – built into a cliff
Where is it
On the Adriatic Sea, just south of Croatia
How many days
4 days (long weekend)
Trip dates
Any time between March and September
Weather
18 to 26 degrees C
Flight duration
3.5 hours from the UK
Average flight price
Normally £3-400 from the UK
Baku, Azerbaijan
Trip highlights (Google them!):
- Help in a deaf school
- Baku is 28m below sea level!
- Lie in a mud volcano!
- Maiden Tower
- Day trip to Shahdag to see the mountains
- Stunning mix of unusual architecture
Where is it
On the Caspian sea
How many days?
1 week
Trip dates
September or October
Weather
Warm, sunny, mainly dry
Flight duration
Around 7-8 hours including a stopover, from the UK
Average flight price
Normally around £5-600 from the UK
Istanbul, Turkey
Trip highlights (Google them!):
- Help at a deaf school
- Visit the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia Mosque
- Explore the Sultanahmet District
- Walk the ancient city walls
- Obelisk of Theodosius
- Topkapi Palace
- The Grand Bazaar (the oldest covered market in the world)
- Bosphorus Strait (bridge between Europe and Asia)
Where is it
Where Europe meets Asia, Istanbul is in north west Turkey on the Bosphorus Strait
How many days?
4 days (long weekend)
Trip dates
Spring or autumn
Weather
Warm, sunny, mainly dry
Flight duration
Around 4 hours from the UK
Average flight price
Normally around £400 return from the UK
Sicily, Italy
Trip highlights
- Help at a deaf school
- Explore beautiful colourful towns along the coast
- Visit Mount Etna – Europe’s highest and most active volcano
- Eat delicious food in tavernas by the sea
- Visit a vineyard
- Relax on sandy beaches & swim in the sea
Where is it
At the southern tip of Italy, in the Mediterranean sea
How many days?
4 days (long weekend)
Trip dates
Spring or autumn
Weather
Warm, sunny, dry
Flight duration
Under 3 hours from the UK
Average flight price
Around £200 return
Have your say!
–> Which trip/s are you most interested in (or not), and why?
Your feedback will help us decide which trips to run next.
Please email us or sms/whatsapp: +44 7713 752124
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